Hello Matthew,
You can inherit the group, but not the user, of the containing folder.
This can be achieved by making the folder setgid and then making sure
that the client systems have a proper umask. See the attached PDF for
a presentation that I conducted on this topic to my students in the
We use shared directories for projects in our hpc cluster and use acls to
achieve this.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-access-control-lists
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Paul Mezzanini
Platform Engineer III
Research Computing
Rochester Institute of Technology
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